Shawnee Mission North High School - Indian Yearbook (Overland Park, KS)

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Student Council In order to bring the students and faculty more closely together in the administration of school activities, Shawnee-Mission has a Student Council. Each fall, five members are elected from each of the four classes, making a total of twenty members. To have membership in the organization, one must have a scholastic rating of at least C, and be chosen by the majority of the students in his class. Tommy Dawson, Jr., Betty Andrews, and Paul Miller were the three Shawnee-Mission delegates to the regional conference at Ponca City, Cklahoma, early last fall. This year the Council sponsored the first two mixers in the history of the school. One was held in the fall, and the other early in the second semester. The Council also staged the annual ping pong tournament. A boys' singles, girls' singles, and boys' doubles contests were held. On alumni day it was the duty of the Student Council to welcome back old grads and present to them badges inscribed with their name and year of graduation. The program committee, composed of Dortha Early, Paul Miller and Willia James, has been responsible for assembly programs and lyceums throughout the year. The president of the Council who has presided at all assemblies and has the title of president of the student body is Nan Sperry, senior. The other officers are Tommy Daw- son, Jr., senior, vice-president, Betty Andrews, senior, secretary, and Eileen Swope, junior, treasurer. V Front row-T. Dawson, P. Boxmeyer, B. Lightfoot, B. Andrews, V. Baehr, V. Cochran, B. Neff. Middle row -R. Beasley, W. James, N. Sperry, B. Perry, D. Early, E. Swope, J. Baldwin. Back row-C. Davis, B. Mac- Lean, P. Miller, P. Turner, L. Gordon. 27

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Thespian Society For the first time, a Thespian troupe, which is a dramatic honor society for high schools, has been organized at Shawnee-Mission. Its purpose is to give adequate recognition to students who attain excellence in high school dramatics and to create more activity and interest in dramatics among boys and girls of secondary schools. The nature of this organization is purely educational, a non-secret, non-social group. The club was organized too late to carry on many activities. However, meetings which were held every other week during the spring were devoted to the study of worth- while plays and their production and direction. Cfficers are Betty Pearle Foulk, president, John DeCloud, vice-president, Claude Huff, secretary, and Ray Helgesen, treasurer. Front row-N. Farrar, G. Leverett, B. A. Andersen, N. Sperry, B. Legler, R. A. Walz. Middle row-E. Mullins, B. Weise, C. Johnson, B. P. Foulk, M. J. Schell, M. Maier. Back row-T. Dawson, J. DeCloud, C. Huff, R. Helgesen, R. Bell. Steno-ettes Any senior girl having two units in Commerce is eligible to membership in the Steno-ettes. Having completed its second year in Shawnee-Mission, this club has as its purpose, the teaching of business etiquette to girls. The club alternately devotes its weekly Monday meetings to business of the club and social hours. I Officers of the club are: Irene Mayer, president, Maxine Seute, vice-president, Margaret Jane Schell, secretary, and Bonnie McReynolds, treasurer. ' Miss Wilma Atkeson is the faculty sponsor. Front row-P. Wiggins, M. Chaplin, B. Billing, B. McReynolds, M. Seute, R. A. Walz, D. Lightfoot, L. Burkett, L. Aberer, A. M. Wagner. Back row- C. Deig, Z. Lacy, B. Long, E. Long, M. J. Schell, B. Weise, M. Maier, I. Mayer, B. Andrews. Hi-Y Clean living, fair play, and development of body, mind, and spirit make up the principles for which the Hi-Y organization stands. This boys' group is the high school branch of the nation-wide Young Men's Christian Association. I Along with such activities as entertaining the P.-T. A., selling candy at the basketball games, and swimming at the Y. M. C. A. pool in Kansas City, Kansas, the Shawnee- Mission Hi-Y sent its president, Claude Huff, to the state convention at Chapman, Kansas. The convention was held in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the found- ing of the Hi-Y in Kansas. I The officers are Claude Huff, president, Tom Dawson, Jr., vice-president, Ray Hel- gesen, secretary, and Bob Mabes, treasurer. M. E. Alleman is faculty sponsor. Front row-S. King, V. Bodine, W. Hayes, L. Ashner, P. Alleman, N. Helmers, W. Godfrey. Middle row-R. Helgesen, T. Dawson, C. Huff, W. C. Brown, B. Mabes, E. Patton, H. J. Miller. Back row--A. Pearson, W. R. Brown, J. Beverly, P. Duck- worth, M. Fraser, H. King. 29 II ,III w. wrfg Lia! ' I.I I I II .Im I ,ig I I , I III I I'I I' -I III I III. if I . Il I II 'I I II I-I 'I HI I II . ll 'I il I 4 I It I I. I: I I I I. I